What might the patterns of urban sprawl look like if humanity were to survive another thousand years or so? Artist Tom Beddard envisions fractal formations seemingly cut right into the earth, ...
Unbound by gravity, the need for structural soundness or any sense of real-world aesthetics, architecture becomes like a life form of its own, multiplying and mutating in strange and unsettling ...
Even the world's most famous architects, from Zaha Hadid to Frank Gehry, get rejected sometimes. When Norman Foster's visionary proposal for a new London airport built right in the middle of the ...
As urban populations flourish, cities typically expand outward into suburbia or suffer growing pains with static infrastructure that just can't keep up. What if, instead, cities were based upon ...
With their inefficient terminals and bloated footprints, today's airports are typically ill-equipped to adapt to sharp increases in demand, scarce land availability or new flight technologies. ...
A skyscraper filled with corpses may sound morbid, but soon, such things may become a necessity. The earth is already packed with dead housed in oversized caskets that have been designed to ...
These skyscrapers, homes and city concepts eschew typical architectural silhouettes, taking inspiration from cliffs, mountains and hills to create artificial landscape features of their own. ...
Some spots are such beautiful potential locations for a home, yet repeated natural disasters make them inhospitable for all but the strongest and most durable of dwellings. Architect Dionisio ...
Mathematics are more integral to architecture than ever before, and as the methods of designing structures grow more complex, so do the calculations. As these fractal and parametric designs - ...
Hundreds of outlandish architectural proposals envisioned for cities around the world are rejected every year, but some are notable for their vision, controversial nature or sheer scale. Berlin, ...
